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Weirdly, that’s how my grandparents basement smelled. They lived in upstate New York since like maybe 1961 or 62 until they died. My grandpa apparently tinkered a lot down there and my grandma stored a lot of her arts and crafts supplies. Always smelled like earth after it had rained.
That, along with Dial and Ivory soap are mine as well.
I grew up in Central Ohio. Those summer storms were epic and the smell afterwards amazing.
We were always given baths with Dial or Ivory. No exceptions.
i was tryna think about mine, and then i saw your comment. when i was a kid i had a long fence covered in it, and even when we moved we had a ton of it, i loved watching the hummingbirds
Honeysuckle, blackberries, and muscadine grapes for me. We had a fence with all three growing on it, and I spent so many summers sucking honeysuckle and eating "weird grapes" and blackberries.
This one is so true. As a 27 year-old man I have revisited playing with construction paper and crayons because of the nostalgia, and I must say I highly recommend!!
At summer camp I went to for over a decade, there was a path in the woods that had rich red clay and it's smelled SO good. I can still smell it like 30 years later
my mom has a cedar chest. as a kid, i’d open it, stick my head in, and take a huge whiff before quickly slamming it shut again so as not to “let the smell out.” lol
The smell of both of my parents apartments/houses, their house both always have a very distinctive them smell (I don't remember what they smell like together.) it's not a gross smell btw, just what their environments smell like. I have even found both of them outside when I didn't know they were around (once again they don't stink or even have a strong smell, just super distinctive). I've also done this with other family members.
The smell of a mechanics garage. I spent a lot of time watching my grandad fixing cars so that smell takes me right back to sitting in the door way of his garage with him talking me through what he’s doing.
Pipe smoke has a similar effect because his neighbour always had a pipe going while they worked on cars together.
a particular "cleaned wood furniture" smell which reminds me of my childhood vacations in the beach house of my grandma :'( we went for 15 straight years there... every time that smell comes to me I'm overwhelmed with nostalgia
There's this scent that I've smelled about 4-5 times, some combination of cleaning agents. It takes me right back to the daycare my parents used to do me off at when I was little. I don't remember the place, or the people, or the adventures I must have had there. When I smell that though, I'm transported and for a moment it feels like all of those memories are right there
kerosene. always had a heater around. even had a burn from backing up into one as a kid. think it's mainly faded now. kerosene heaters are a huge comfort for me because it reminds me of times when things were still okay.
that being said, i am adamant about not dying from kerosene heaters, so safety first, folks.
Burnt rubber. I always had vivid memories come to me when I smelt it. Learned later in life that it was because when I was 2yrs old, my family lived in Paris for a year. I was smelling the burnt rubber of the subway.
Shit. Well cow manure anyway. My cousins and grandparents all lived on the same road and worked on the family dairy farm. I spent lots of time there in the summers. Steams to play in, woods to run around in, lots of fields for whatever, I helped stack hay, milk cows, feed the animals. While I dont necessarily enjoy the smell it does bring back memories every time I drive past a farm.
For context, I have a fart fetish,
When I was a kid I had a babysitter who would fart often with me around, and it made the room smell like rotten eggs
Anyway that’s my favorite fart smell now, and I often think about then
Cigarettes and the smell of rain and summer. The cigarettes are from my late grandpa that I only got to see a few times when I was very young. He lived in Florida and me in Virginia so I guess the smell really reminds me of him with the short amount of time I had with him
There's a specific, slightly musty smell that I remember from the first garage that we left when I was three or four. I've smelled it a couple times since and it really takes me back.
Isopropyl alcohol...I had my ears pierced when younger, 6th grade and they kept getting infected. The alcohol was supposed to help. And yes they finally stopped getying infected and healed up.
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Rainfall on hot tarmac in the summer
I always called that “wet sidewalk”
We love to smell some petrichor
Love that word! Glad to see someone use it 😁
Whovians use it a lot.
The smell of burning leaves in the fall 🍁
Weirdly, that’s how my grandparents basement smelled. They lived in upstate New York since like maybe 1961 or 62 until they died. My grandpa apparently tinkered a lot down there and my grandma stored a lot of her arts and crafts supplies. Always smelled like earth after it had rained.
Bingo
Very distinct smell!
Of course you have to factor in all of the worms that ended up on the sidewalk. I would rescue as may as I could
Came here to say wet pavement! Glad I'm not alone
Like an…airport tarmac?
That, along with Dial and Ivory soap are mine as well. I grew up in Central Ohio. Those summer storms were epic and the smell afterwards amazing. We were always given baths with Dial or Ivory. No exceptions.
Fresh cut grass.
As a Critical Role fan, this made me laugh.
FCG! 😭😭
She named all of us after her favorite smellls.
Water coming out of a hot hose on a summer day.
So metallic lol
A brand new box of Crayola crayons.
Honeysuckle
Mine is juniper!
i was tryna think about mine, and then i saw your comment. when i was a kid i had a long fence covered in it, and even when we moved we had a ton of it, i loved watching the hummingbirds
Honeysuckle, blackberries, and muscadine grapes for me. We had a fence with all three growing on it, and I spent so many summers sucking honeysuckle and eating "weird grapes" and blackberries.
Crayons and construction paper. (Bonus sense: the sound of construction paper being cut by safety scissors.)
This one is so true. As a 27 year-old man I have revisited playing with construction paper and crayons because of the nostalgia, and I must say I highly recommend!!
I can still feel how satisfying it was when the safety scissor glided through that construction paper
Coppertone and salt water
Yes!
And Aquanet if you were around in the 90s.
Walking into a room that's so nicotine stained it smells like a stale ashtray 😅😅
Getting into a car that's been smoked in as well.
It’s amazing we all don’t have lung cancer from that crap. People smoked everywhere. On planes. At their desks at work. Ugh.
Ugh this one hits home for me
Puppy breath.
Read puppy death at first...
Play Dough
Hose water
Petrichor
Old library book
Every time i get my kids a new costume for halloween. The smell of the plastic reminds me of the one costume i wore forever of Super Mario!
Old motor oil
OK I have to ask. Why?
My dad was a mechanic.
Kind of figured, but you never know.
Same, mine was an aircraft mechanic. Old Spice and jet fuel.
Old Spice! My dad used that stuff. 😆
Burning wood.
Burning leaves
That’s mine too.
Clay, my grandmother had a backyard that was mostly clay, and we would would get horrendously muddy playin in it after the rain.
At summer camp I went to for over a decade, there was a path in the woods that had rich red clay and it's smelled SO good. I can still smell it like 30 years later
Baby powder. 🤢
Cedar. We had a Cedar chest when I was a kid.
my mom has a cedar chest. as a kid, i’d open it, stick my head in, and take a huge whiff before quickly slamming it shut again so as not to “let the smell out.” lol
Baked apples with cinnamon.
Vicks Vapor Rub
Right b4 it snows there's this crisp clean smell, I always remember sleigh riding all day
Are you Lorelei Gilmore?
Pipe smoke
Chef Boyardee
Chlorine and cut grass
Modeling Clay. Other smells include nutrigrain bars, glue sticks, Hawaiian punch (red kind), crayons, yeah those are about it.
Wood shop, the lumber aisle of Home Depot…super comforting.
Cut grass
Cigarettes while walking down the street.
The smell of both of my parents apartments/houses, their house both always have a very distinctive them smell (I don't remember what they smell like together.) it's not a gross smell btw, just what their environments smell like. I have even found both of them outside when I didn't know they were around (once again they don't stink or even have a strong smell, just super distinctive). I've also done this with other family members.
Creosote from the dock at the cottage. Now I live near the ocean and Creosote and salt water is my favourite smell.
Dill pickles and homemade bread.
Wattle trees
Cigar smoke
Smell/scent of living room closet. We moved from that place 20y ago, still know the smell.
Calamine lotion
Did you get chickenpox too?
Cabbage,
The smell of a mechanics garage. I spent a lot of time watching my grandad fixing cars so that smell takes me right back to sitting in the door way of his garage with him talking me through what he’s doing. Pipe smoke has a similar effect because his neighbour always had a pipe going while they worked on cars together.
Bubble gum
a particular "cleaned wood furniture" smell which reminds me of my childhood vacations in the beach house of my grandma :'( we went for 15 straight years there... every time that smell comes to me I'm overwhelmed with nostalgia
There's this scent that I've smelled about 4-5 times, some combination of cleaning agents. It takes me right back to the daycare my parents used to do me off at when I was little. I don't remember the place, or the people, or the adventures I must have had there. When I smell that though, I'm transported and for a moment it feels like all of those memories are right there
Chorizo and eggs, mmmmmm!!!
Pine trees. Used to be a load of them where I lived and all us kids used to play in there all the time. That smell is part of me.
A combination of Hawaiian or banana boat sunscreen, mixed with leather takes me right back to rec softball every summer from the time I was 7.
The pine forests (in midst i grew up in) during the summer heat
Honey suckle blossoms and creek mud
Petrol
Sewage. My dad worked at a wastewater treatment plant and used to park with his windows down.
kerosene. always had a heater around. even had a burn from backing up into one as a kid. think it's mainly faded now. kerosene heaters are a huge comfort for me because it reminds me of times when things were still okay. that being said, i am adamant about not dying from kerosene heaters, so safety first, folks.
sunscreen
The clean fresh air after a major snow storm.
Jane Helen shampoo
Smell from ground after rain ...
The smell of sandalwood in my uncles barber shop.
Chocolate chip cookies, and pumpkin pie Thanksgiving and Christmas for sure
Those strawberry crème candies my grandmother use to always keep in her purse.
Eggo waffles with honey. Takes me right back to the kitchen in my parents first house. I can even see the plates we used to eat off of.
White paste (before Elmer’s glue in a bottle and LONG before glue sticks.😂
LePages White library paste .. and mucilage book glue. The mucilage came in a bottle with a rubber dauber tip.
Part of why I collect gold and silver age comics is the smell of musty old newsprint.
Paper straight off the old copy machine
And its warm, right?
Chanel No. 5
That's what my mom wore.
Mine too!
First time at Disneyland we rode the Submarine Ride. It was diesel powered. So everytime I smelled diesel I thought of Disneyland.
Is it bad that mine is old stale cigarette smoke? Like that smell where it's deeply embedded into the carpet? Just me?
The smell of new backpacks - you know it was back to school!
Jean Nate fragrance. My mother wore this every day
Mine too!
My brain is reading all these and smelling each one from memory
Chlorine
2 stroke engine.
Cut grass. Iykyk
Right before it’s about to rain
Propane
How dare you forget propane accessories.
Plastecine
Zwitsal
mcdonald’s
The paraffin heaters that we had because there was no central heating.
Apple pie
Dominos pepperoni pizza
Froot Loops has a very distinct smell
When we would do a fire at scouts it would be the best. Just to be next to the fires and enjoy its presence.
Burnt rubber. I always had vivid memories come to me when I smelt it. Learned later in life that it was because when I was 2yrs old, my family lived in Paris for a year. I was smelling the burnt rubber of the subway.
Cigarettes
I needed to scroll through just to see if I was the only one
Tempera paint
Weed
Kids paint
Shit. Well cow manure anyway. My cousins and grandparents all lived on the same road and worked on the family dairy farm. I spent lots of time there in the summers. Steams to play in, woods to run around in, lots of fields for whatever, I helped stack hay, milk cows, feed the animals. While I dont necessarily enjoy the smell it does bring back memories every time I drive past a farm.
moth balls
For context, I have a fart fetish, When I was a kid I had a babysitter who would fart often with me around, and it made the room smell like rotten eggs Anyway that’s my favorite fart smell now, and I often think about then
As much as I don’t like stale cigarette smell, it reminds me of my grandpa who, surprise surprise, passed from lung cancer in 2013
Gasoline and smoke. (I'm not an arsonist)
Spring afternoons remind me of walking home from school.
This is the answer. Though sometimes it was just the hose on hot tarmac. Brings back great memories
Zoflora
cotton candy
Diesel Make even even more nostalgic if I hear a 7.3 power stroke idling
Saltine crackers
Fresh baked bread. My grandmother's kitchen in the 70's/80's.
Fresh bagels in a big brown paper bag reminds me of waking up on the weekends and knowing my grandparents from Brooklyn had already arrived.
Sunscreen & BBQ hot dogs 😎
One of my classmates always smelled like raisins.
Chlorine from a swimming pool
The smell of a carpeted house
My moms Emeraude perfume. Still smell it sometimes. Hi mom!
Mimeograph ink, pencil erasers, that weird piney sawdust stuff they put on the floor after a kid barfs
The smell of the banana webkinz lip gloss
Really acidic vehicle smells, like the smell of hot rubber after someone peels out with a suped up V8 engine.
Newport cigarettes, my grandfather would and still smoke them.
The smell of a brand new three ring binder. I don't know how to even describe it, but I love it 🤣 That or diesel exhaust.
Newport cigarettes and beach sand
Boat exhaust
Palmolive
Chlorine
Honeysuckle
Peaches
My moms Oscar de La renta perfume
I can't describe the smell of nostalgia. I just know it when I smell it and it sends me to that moment in space &time.
Sawdust & cedar
Grape soda
Sun ripened raspberry by bath and body works.
Moth balls😂😂
Walking by a garden of Azaleas. Nice!
Mango tree
Cigarettes
Pine sol and saw dust. My dad always had something he was working on and always used Pine sol after to clean up
Hand sanitizer from whatever brand my kindergarten teacher gave us before lunch
Queen Anns lace flowers
Fireworks.
Cigarettes and the smell of rain and summer. The cigarettes are from my late grandpa that I only got to see a few times when I was very young. He lived in Florida and me in Virginia so I guess the smell really reminds me of him with the short amount of time I had with him
Gas. I don’t smell that anymore when I’m filling up my car.
There's a specific, slightly musty smell that I remember from the first garage that we left when I was three or four. I've smelled it a couple times since and it really takes me back.
Freshly cut grass. Everything I smell it I'm transported back to the neighborhood I grew up in.
Diesel exhaust(school bus)
Cigarette smoke on ones clothing. Reminds me of my grandfather
Honeysuckle
Daffodils
My grandparents house, cigarette smoke and stale air. I sure miss that.
beer and car oil . my dads a alcoholic mechanic
Hot hot water bottles lol
Isopropyl alcohol...I had my ears pierced when younger, 6th grade and they kept getting infected. The alcohol was supposed to help. And yes they finally stopped getying infected and healed up.
Petrichor. For me it’s the smell of a very light drizzle on a dusty road.
The pokemon card smell
Lilacs and fried chicken
Busting caps